43 P.S. § 491-17.1 Violations and Penalties

• Library: Pennsylvania Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through P.A. Acts 2023-27
• Year: 2023
• Citation: 43 P.S. § 491-17.1

(a) It shall be a summary offense, punishable by a fine of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) or imprisonment for up to sixty days, or both:

(1) For any person to obtain or attempt to obtain an employer's or a contractor's permit required by section 7 or section 9 through fraud or misrepresentation; or

(2) For any person to deliver or cause to be delivered, to any person, any articles or materials for manufacture by industrial homework, prohibited by section 4 or by the department under authority of section 5 ; or

(3) For any person to deliver or cause to be delivered, to any person, any articles or materials for manufacture by industrial homework, if the person delivering or causing the delivery does not have in his possession a valid appropriate permit required by section 7 or section 9; or

(4) For any person to deliver or cause to be delivered, to any person, any articles or materials for manufacturing by industrial homework, if the person to whom the articles or materials are delivered does not possess a home-worker's certificate which is valid or which, after performance of the inspection required by section 16 , a person could reasonably believe to be valid; or

(5) For any person to fail to keep records or make a report as required by section 12 , or refuse to grant access to such records as required bysection 12, or to keep records or make a report required by section 12 inaccurately, if the inaccuracy is due to fraud, misrepresentation, or reckless disregard for accuracy; or

(6) For any person to fail to perform any duty imposed by section 16 ; or

(7) For an employer, representative contractor, or contractor to obtain or aid any person to obtain a home-worker's certificate, if he knows or has reason to know that the person does not meet the qualifications of a home-worker set forth in section 11 ; or

(8) For any person to sell or to possess with intent to sell, any articles manufactured in violation of any provision of this act, or any manufactured articles which have not been labeled as required by section 14(b) , if the person knows or should have known that the articles were manufactured by industrial homework and are not labeled as required by this act.

(9) For any person to make a deduction from the wages or salary of any home-worker prohibited bysection 8 .

(b) It shall be a summary offense, punishable by a fine of five hundred dollars ($500.00) or imprisonment for up to thirty days, or both, for any person to deliver or cause to be delivered, to any person, any articles or materials for manufacture by industrial homework which are not labeled in the manner prescribed by section 14(a).